moving from N54L xpenology to a synology DS415

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I have been using xpenology ( DSM4.1, dont remember the method) on my N54L for a couple of Years but now it disappeared from my network and cannot figure why... I was thinking about switching to a DS415 (I have 4 HDDs in raid) but dont want to loose data of course (This is quite huge, about 8gigs).

Can I take those 4 HDD and put them in the syno whithout problem?

If no, what Can I do to This migration?

Thanks for any help

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Come on, nobody has tried the migration from xpeno to synology? I think it should work without problems, since the operating system is on a usb key, but I have some doubts since a part of the os may be dispatched on the HDDs.

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Suggest you to test it by building a simple raid with unused harddisk with xpenology, then move it to a real synology box.

From my point of view, it should work, as if you migrate a old synology model to a new model, you will need to migrate and install dsm, the raid structurenshould be the same so real synology should be able to pick it up

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Ok, I understand the restrictions of quantity of drives in migration, but for clarification are you saying if you're using a DS3615xs XPEnology that only has 4 drives it IS or IS NOT possible to migrate them to a DS415 4-bay (for example)?

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Ok, I understand the restrictions of quantity of drives in migration, but for clarification are you saying if you're using a DS3615xs XPEnology that only has 4 drives it IS or IS NOT possible to migrate them to a DS415 4-bay (for example)?

Yes, it IS possible. That document explains that, physically, 12 HDDs from 3615xs cannot migrate into 5 bay box. because there is no physical slot left on 5 bay model.

And Synology document tell us why we can't migrate 1 bay system into multi bay system (vice versa). Simply 1 bay system is using different file system than others.

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Great, then we're on the same page with the same understanding but no proven example to point to. Thank you for your willingness to demonstrate the scenario. I know I won't be the only one here to benefit from gaining a definite answer. Theoretical answers are not so reassuring when you're talking about mass amounts of data and performing a procedure that may or may not destroy that data. Thank you, I'm eager to hear what you find.